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  1. Röttgers, J.: ¬Eine rote Leiste verrät Datensammler : Ergänzungen im Webbrowser helfen Surfern, ihre Privatsphäre zu bewahren (2003) 0.00 
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  2. Abbate, J.: Democracy and new media (2003) 0.00 
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  3. Weilenmann, A.-K.: Fachspezifische Internetrecherche : für Bibliothekare, Informationsspezialisten und Wissenschaftler (2001) 0.00 
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    Footnote
    Weitere Rez: BuB 29(2007) H.1, S.71-72 (J. Plieninger)
  4. OWLED 2009; OWL: Experiences and Directions, Sixth International Workshop, Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 23-24 October 2009, Co-located with ISWC 2009. (2009) 0.00 
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    Content
    Demo/Position Papers * Conjunctive Query Answering in Distributed Ontology Systems for Ontologies with Large OWL ABoxes, Xueying Chen and Michel Dumontier. * Node-Link and Containment Methods in Ontology Visualization, Julia Dmitrieva and Fons J. Verbeek. * A JC3IEDM OWL-DL Ontology, Steven Wartik. * Semantically Enabled Temporal Reasoning in a Virtual Observatory, Patrick West, Eric Rozell, Stephan Zednik, Peter Fox and Deborah L. McGuinness. * Developing an Ontology from the Application Up, James Malone, Tomasz Adamusiak, Ele Holloway, Misha Kapushesky and Helen Parkinson.
  5. Hedden, H.: Indexing specialities : Web Sites (2007) 0.00 
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    Footnote
    Rez. in: IWP 60(2009) H.4, S.245 (J. Fassbender): "Heather Heddens Buch über Website-Indexing gehört zur Indexing Specialties-Serie, die vom Information Today-Verlag in Zusammenarbeit mit der American Society of Indexers herausgegeben wird. Der Bereich Website-Indexing befasst sich mit der Index-Erstellung und -Pflege für Websites und Intranets - ähnlich zu Registern für Printpublikationen. Ein Website-Index hat oft die Bezeichnung Site Index oder A-Z Index und sollte zudem nicht mit Site Maps verwechselt werden. Das Buch füllt gerade auch hierzulande eine Riesenlücke aus: Nach Einschätzung des Deutschen Netzwerks der Indexer (DNI) ist das Wissensdefizit über Website-Indexing in der deutschen Web- und IT-Szene enorm. Die Autorin beginnt in diesem Sinne auch gleich mit zwei Kernaussagen des Buches: 1. Website-Indexing sei deshalb in der Web-Szene nicht so verbreitet, weil die Kenntnisse der Methoden zur Index-Erstellung fehlen und/oder die nötigen Tools unbekannt sind. 2. Ein guter Index stelle für viele Sites die effektivste Suchmethode dar - trotz der Konkurrenz zu Navigationsmenüs und Sucheingabe. Verdeutlicht werden sodann die Unterschiede zu Print-Registern, der bedeutendste betrifft die Locators (Fundstellen), die in der Regel keine Seitenangaben, sondern Links sind.
  6. Büssow, J.; Tauss, J.; Scheithauer, I.; Bayer, M.: ¬Ein Kampf gegen den Rechtsextrimismus - oder gegen das Internet? : Der Düsseldorfer Regierungspräsident Jürgen Büssow und der Medienexperte Jörg Tauss (beide SPD) streiten über Sperren und Filter für das Web (2002) 0.00 
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  7. Lazar, J.: Web usability : a user-centered design approach (2006) 0.00 
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    Footnote
    Rez. in: JASIST 58(2007) no.7, S.1066-1067 (X. Zhu u. J. Liao): "The user, without whom any product or service would be nothing, plays a very important role during the whole life cycle of products or services. The user's involvement should be from the very beginning, not just after products or services are ready to work. According to ISO 9241-11: 1998, Part 11, Usability refers to "the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of user." As an academic topic of human-computer interaction, Web usability has been studied widely for a long time. This classroom-oriented book, bridging academia and the educational community, talks about Web usability in a student-friendly fashion. It outlines not only the methodology of user-centered Web site design but also details the methods to implement at every stage of the methodology. That is, the book presents the user-centered Web-design approach from both macrocosm and microcosm points of view, which makes it both recapitulative and practical. The most important key word in Web Usability is "user-centered," which means Web developers should not substitute their own personal preferences for the users' needs. The book classifies Web sites into five types: E-commerce, informational, entertainment, community, and intranet. Since the methods used during Web development differ somewhat depending on the type of Web site, it is necessary to have a classification in advance. With Figure 1.3 on p. 17, the book explains the whole user-centered Webdevelopment life cycle (called "methodology" in this book review), which provides a clear path for Web development that is easy to understand, remember, and perform. Since all the following chapters are based on the methodology, a clear presentation of it is paramount. The table on p. 93 summarizes concisely all types of methods for requirements gathering and their advantages and disadvantages. According to this table, appropriate methods can be easily chosen for different Web site development projects. As the author remarked, "requirements gathering is central to the concept of user-centered design," (p. 98) and "one of the hallmarks of user-centered design is usability testing" (p. 205). Stage 2 (collect user requirements) and Stage 5 (perform usability testing) of the user-centered Web-development life cycle are the two stages with the most user involvement: however, this does not mean that all other stages are user unrelated. For example, in Stage 4 (create and modify physical design), frame is not suggested to be used just because most users are unfamiliar with the concept of frame (p. 201). Note that frequently there are several rounds of usability testing to be performed in the four case studies, and some of them are performed before the physical-design stage or even the conceptual-design stage, which embodies the idea of an iterative design process.
  8. Kaube, J.: Browser, Server, E-Mail gegen Gelbe Seiten, Kühlschrank und Telefon : Lesen und surfen lassen: Die Stiftungen der Medienkonzerne Bertelsmann und AOL Time Warner veranstalten eine Tagung über "21st Century Literacy" in Berlin (2002) 0.00 
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  9. Heess, J.: Internet-Computer erleichtern Blinden, den Alltag zu bewältigen. Sehende können ihre Augen ausleihen : Surfen mit Fingerspitzengefühl (2002) 0.00 
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  10. Siegle, J.: Sexuelle Belästigung im Internet : Pornographie, Gewalt und Hass finden zunehmend den Weg ins Web. Jugendschützer kämpfen dagegen an (2001) 0.00 
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  11. Brennscheidt, A.: AskA-Services : Nicht-bibliothekarische Informationsdienstleister im Internet (2003) 0.00 
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    Footnote
    Rez. in: B.I.T. online 6(2003) H.3, S.298 (J. Plieninger): "Elektronische Auskunftsdienste befinden sich gerade in der Entwicklung, und so ist es verdienstvoll von der FH Köln, in ihrer Institutsreihe einen Text über private Online-Auskunftsdienste zu veröffentlichen, welcher uns daran erinnert, dass die Konkurrenz nicht schläft, ja vielmehr schon länger am Markt tätig ist! Die Autorin deutet am Schluss zu Recht darauf hin, dass man analysieren müsse, warum die Kunden dieser Dienste nicht einen von Bibliotheken angebotenen Informationsdienst konsultieren. Vielleicht, weil Bibliotheken noch keine virtuelle Auskunft anbieten? Dann wird es Zeit, dies in Angriff zu nehmen! Am Anfang des Textes stehen Begriffsklärungen. Die Autorin schlägt vor, "Digital Reference" für Auskunftsdienste von Bibliotheken im Netz zu verwenden und "AskA"-Services (kommt von "Ask an expert") für die private Sphäre, seien es kommerzielle oder nichtkommerzielle Dienste. Bei diesen meist unentgeltlich zu nutzenden Diensten beantworten Experten frei gestellte Fragen. Die Autorin trennt solche Dienste von anderen, welche reine Foren darstellen (wie z.B. Newsgroups oder Chats), nur zu Zwecken von Firmen dienen, Meinungen transportieren oder Schlichtweg kostenpflichtig sind. Danach wird die Entwicklung solcher Dienste in den USA und hierzulande dargestellt. Solche Dienste gibt es seit 1995 und sie haben sich seitdem, wie das Netz selbst, fortwährend gewandelt, wie z.B. der angelsächsische Dienst AskJeeves oder das deutsche Auskunftsportal MeoMe, das mittlerweile in Freenet eingegliedert wurde. Danach wird eine Typologie der Dienste erstellt, einerseits nach der Intention der Betreiber und andererseits nach der Kommunikationsart. Hier sind zwei Aspekte bedeutsam: - manche Dienste sind unentgeltlich zu nutzen, aber nicht kostenlos, insofern man Werbung oder Public Relations zu ertragen hat und - die Crux bei solchen Diensten ist auch die Frage nach den "Experten", die antworten. Manche Dienste schulen ihre Mitarbeiter, aber dennoch ist die Frage zu stellen, in wie weit die Experten wirklich als solche anzusehen sind. Letzteres wird noch deutlicher bei der Lektüre der nun folgenden, mit Screenshots versehenen Besprechung einzelner Dienste (Askjeeves.com, Webhelp.com, MAD Scientist Network, Werweiss-was.de und Google Answers). Mehrere dieser Dienste arbeiten mit Archiven schon bisher gestellter Fragen und Antworten, was für bibliothekarische Digitale Auskunft eventuell auch eine attraktive Sache sein könnte. Bei der Lektüre der strukturiert angebotenen Besprechung wird klar, dass auch die private Konkurrenz noch nicht das Patentrezept gefunden hat: Askjeeves vertraut auf techisch ausgefuchste Lösungen und automatische Einbeziehung von Suchmaschinenergebnissen, bei Webhelp.com sind die Experten einerseits mit Fragezeichen zu betrachten, andererseits immer noch so teuer, dass ein Teil des Services kostenpflichtig wird, MAD Scientist Network bietet anerkannt gute Auskunft im naturwissenschaftlichen Bereich, verweist viele Fragenden auf das Archiv und hat ansonsten keine schnellen Reaktionszeiten, Wer-weiss-was vertraut auf selbsternannte Experten, es gibt also keine Qualitätssicherung, und Googles Auskunftsdienst ist kostenpflichtig und noch in der beta-Phase. Alles in allem eine Arbeit, die man zur Kenntnis nehmen sollte, um die Lösungen der Konkurrenz zu studieren, wenn man eine Online-Auskunft einführen möchte."
  12. Ding, J.: Can data die? : why one of the Internet's oldest images lives on wirhout its subjects's consent (2021) 0.00 
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  13. Waesche, N.M.: Internet entrepreneurship in Europe : venture failure and the timing of telecommunications reform (2003) 0.00 
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    Footnote
    Rez. in: JASIST 55(2004) no.2, S.181-182 (J. Scholl): "The book is based an a doctoral thesis titled "Global opportunity and national political economy: The development of internet ventures in Germany," which was supervised by Razeen Sally and accepted at the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics & Political Science, UK, in 2002. Its primary audience, although it is certainly of interest to policy makers, trade press journalists, and industry practitioners, is the academic community, and, in particular, (international) policy, business, business history, information technology, and information science scholars. The book's self-stated purpose is to explain "why Europe, despite initiating a tremendous amount of change ... failed to produce independent internet ventures of note" (p. 1) in contrast to the United States, where Internet start-ups such as Amazon.com, eBay, E*trade, and Yahoo managed to survive the notorious dot.com shakeout of 200I-2002. A few pages down, the objective is restated as "to explore the hypothesis of a global opportunity for technology innovation delivered via the internet and to explain Europe's entrepreneurial response" (p. 4). As a proxy case for Europe, the study provides a broad account of the changing legal and socioeconomic setting during the phase of early Internet adoption and development in Germany throughout the 1990s. The author highlights and details various facets of the entrepreneurial opportunity and compares the German case in some detail to corresponding developments in Sweden. Waesche concludes that starting an Internet business in Germany during that particular period of time was a "wrong country, wrong time" (p. I86) proposition.
  14. Janes, J.: Introduction to reference work in the digital age. (2003) 0.00 
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  15. Eggert, L.; Quittek, J.; Stüttgen, H.: ¬Die Zukunft des Internets (2006) 0.00 
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  16. Bruce, H.: ¬The user's view of the Internet (2002) 0.00 
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    Footnote
    Chapter 2 (Technology and People) focuses an several theories of technological acceptance and diffusion. Unfortunately, Bruce's presentation is somewhat confusing as he moves from one theory to next, never quite connecting them into a logical sequence or coherent whole. Two theories are of particular interest to Bruce: the Theory of Diffusion of Innovations and the Theory of Planned Behavior. The Theory of Diffusion of Innovations is an "information-centric view of technology acceptance" in which technology adopters are placed in the information flows of society from which they learn about innovations and "drive innovation adoption decisions" (p. 20). The Theory of Planned Behavior maintains that the "performance of a behavior is a joint function of intentions and perceived behavioral control" (i.e., how muck control a person thinks they have) (pp. 22-23). Bruce combines these two theories to form the basis for the Technology Acceptance Model. This model posits that "an individual's acceptance of information technology is based an beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors" (p. 24). In all these theories and models echoes a recurring theme: "individual perceptions of the innovation or technology are critical" in terms of both its characteristics and its use (pp. 24-25). From these, in turn, Bruce derives a predictive theory of the role personal perceptions play in technology adoption: Personal Innovativeness of Information Technology Adoption (PIITA). Personal inventiveness is defined as "the willingness of an individual to try out any new information technology" (p. 26). In general, the PIITA theory predicts that information technology will be adopted by individuals that have a greater exposure to mass media, rely less an the evaluation of information technology by others, exhibit a greater ability to cope with uncertainty and take risks, and requires a less positive perception of an information technology prior to its adoption. Chapter 3 (A Focus an Usings) introduces the User-Centered Paradigm (UCP). The UCP is characteristic of the shift of emphasis from technology to users as the driving force behind technology and research agendas for Internet development [for a dissenting view, see Andrew Dillion's (2003) challenge to the utility of user-centerness for design guidance]. It entails the "broad acceptance of the user-oriented perspective across a range of disciplines and professional fields," such as business, education, cognitive engineering, and information science (p. 34).

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